#2 Son Graduated Navy Basic Yesterday!

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Sniper, We won't be going after his AIT but that was my sons decision. We planned on going to both but he asked if I would bring his grandparents to his basic graduation instead. I paid for both plane tickets and the room so they could attend.
I know what you mean about those who had no one there. We took along one of my sons buddies for lunch because his parents weren't able to make it.

"He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the Steppes. He had learned a good deal . . . and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life. The cause of this apparently was that at the bottom of his heart he knew all the time (or thought he knew) that he was in reality not a man, but a wolf of the Steppes."